Purchasing power: The Louvre Museum in Paris said it can now buy a 16th century German painting by Lucas Cranach the elder after thousands of people went online to donate money. (Agence France-Presse)

Ruling: A British panel has declared that a painting by Peter Paul Rubens will stay in England despite an attempt by the family of its original owner -- who sold it while fleeing the Nazis -- to recover the work. (The Guardian)

Screen to stage: New York's Playwrights Horizons has commissioned a musical version of the 2002 movie "Far From Heaven" from "Grey Gardens" songwriters Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and playwright Richard Greenberg. (Playbill)

Photo: Protesters converge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Sunday to support the work of the late artist David Wojnarowicz, whose video "A Fire in My Belly" was removed by the Smithsonian. Credit: Spencer Platt / Getty Images